Where do I buy tickets to this event? Also, if you're a tank, this is what a really bad day looks like:

Musk refers to the increase in pressure on the air-bearings as a stability mechanism. It's a dynamically stable system, much like two springs of equal tension opposing one another. The air bearings would stabilize the sides as well I'm assuming.

You could vent the steam because pumps are continuously "vacuuming" the tube. Thus your vacuum pumps would also serve to remove a fairly trivial amount of water.

Took a look at the technical PDF: pretty solid design but here are the issues that stand out to me:

Two under construction as well IIRC. "Gerald Ford" class which requires 1/3 the crew.

Please don't act like a government's budget should be run like a household's. Unless you want deflation... if that's the case by all means, proceed.

I think we found our next F35 customer...

Beef-up the existing chasis and use relatively-low power in-wheel motors for the front. Problem solved.

O_o

We don't have the tech to build a space elevator (yet). While I can't comment on the above "space railroad", we do have the tech to build a rail-gun to launch pretty much anything into space that isn't alive (water, food, satellites, space station modules, raw materials, ec). The "isn't alive" limitation is due to…

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